Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2021

These authors share that digital winners focus on : Balancing fast execution with deliberate direction-setting Developing systems so that knowledge is shared not siloed. After really studying the challenge, they decided to take the time to develop their own systems. Building a culture of continuous and practical learning.

McKinsey 65

McKinsey B2C Telecommunications Learning-by-Doing 65

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 20, 2021

These authors share that digital winners focus on : Balancing fast execution with deliberate direction-setting Developing systems so that knowledge is shared not siloed. After really studying the challenge, they decided to take the time to develop their own systems. Building a culture of continuous and practical learning.

McKinsey 65

McKinsey B2C Telecommunications Learning-by-Doing 65

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

Furthermore, the media and information industries will continue to invest in telecommunications outsourcing. These companies will increase their spending on software development from 6% last year to 9% this year. You can expect to see new players for software development outsourcing. New Outsourcing Destinations.

Outsourcing 65

Outsourcing Trends Offshoring Telecommunications 65

Experience to Lead

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Alex brings over 20 years of operations experience with an unwavering focus on exceeding client expectations. Virtual programs with a major telecommunications firm in Malaysia. Soon to deliver 35 additional virtual sessions with the Asia-Pacific offices of a Fortune Global 500 Beauty Tech Company.

Telecommunications 52

Telecommunications Globalization Learning-by-Doing Participative 52

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

The client is opening new locations in new communities and asks its consultants to formulate a plan of action and oversee operating aspects. Those who don't help to develop the business on the front end are just vendors and subcontractors. Telecommunications industry service providers. Professional societies and associations.

Cooper 50

Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

HR Digest

JANUARY 5, 2021

The members-only union is supported by the Communication Workers of America, which represents workers in telecommunications, information technology and media. They have developed artificial intelligence technology for use by the Department of Defense and profited from ads by a hate group. Alphabet Workers’ Union open to all workers.

Shaw 52

Shaw Telecommunications Engineering Ethics 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Through the first half of the last decade, a foundation of Nokia's competitive advantage was its unmatched ability to customize a wide variety of phones for operators. A crucial element of its strategy to win over consumers to its advanced smartphones was to persuade third-party developers to create a vast array of apps for its phones.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Telecommunications Core Competence 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

But for many years it took a hands-off approach to new product development — dictating needs, but letting vendors bid for a slot on the Sun server and sink or swim after that. The Sun-Netscape Alliance was formed when AOL acquired Netscape in 1998 but then sought to spin out the software operations of Netscape.

Software 19

Software Licensing Long-term Telecommunications 19

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.

Competitive Advantage 17

Competitive Advantage Leadership Talent Management Telecommunications 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

As multinational corporations pursue opportunities in emerging markets, they're bound to stumble if they overlook the developed economies, and vice versa. Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies.

Globalization 15

Globalization Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Starting in the 1970s, the country's ability to create low-cost, quality products helped them dominate key industries, such as automobiles, telecommunications, and consumer electronics. Sure it's important to inject discipline into product and service development, but not so much that it discourages creativity.

Six Sigma 21

Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 21

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He started very well, but as soon as his cash flow improved, financial burdens from family systems stifled his operations. When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities.

Books 15

Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare. What do you think?

COO 15

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Drawing on her work with business leaders, she has developed the following categorization of how people prefer to think: Conceptual : Reads signs of coming change; sees the "big picture"; recognizes new possibilities; tolerates ambiguity; integrates ideas and concepts; communicates through analogy and metaphor; inspires with visions of the future.

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As companies like this one grow from start-ups into larger enterprises, they're often compelled to analyze numerical data to reduce risk, maintain operations, and model predictable outcomes. The partner confidentially approached the software CEO for advice on how they developed and trained their own staff over the years.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Strategy Telecommunications Software 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

There is clear empirical evidence to back this up: in our research of about 150 firms in the telecommunications industry, we found that the more successful firms all took this active approach to managing their capability and resource portfolios.

Software 15

Software Telecommunications Short-term Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

For example, one telecommunications company we worked with can now predict with 75 times more accuracy whether its customers are about to bolt using machine learning. First, managers should ask themselves if they have automated processes in problem areas that cost significant money and slow down operations. Automating basic processes.

Company 15

Company Telecommunications Retail Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Just over one-fifth (22%) of boards operating in the IT and telecom industry sought tech expertise when filling their most recent board seat, higher than in any other industry.

Innovation 14

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The data-driven have crafted the best strategies, uncovered wholly new markets, and kept operational costs low. Indeed, we think every organization must develop and execute an aggressive plan to put data to work. Today, advances in predictive analytics and the potential for big data portend even greater opportunity.

Organization 16

Organization Telecommunications McKinsey Price 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

Sophisticated sales organizations now have the ability to combine, sift, and sort vast troves of data to develop highly efficient strategies for selling into micromarkets. Another might be made up of markets with similar operating cost structures. Because they are structurally similar, peer groups represent similar sales opportunities.

B2B 15

B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Perhaps equally significant for managers is that the new workers — no matter how many of them there are — will operate differently than their predecessors. Not long ago I worked with a software firm that supported hundreds of legacy applications for the telecommunications industry.

Telecommunications 13

Telecommunications Chemicals Health Care Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

According to a report put out by Greenpeace in April , the electricity demand of data centers and the telecommunications network is rivaling that of most nations. But there was a problem: Utah law didn't allow non-utility companies to buy and transmit power directly from renewable energy developers. China, Russia, and Japan.

Energy 17

Energy Efficiency Industry Telecommunications 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The emergence of a large entrepreneurial community is essential for the development and growth of any country. In Mexico, in the innovative sectors that entrepreneurs usually enter — mobile technology, branchless banking, housing for rural or semi-urban areas, basic services such as water, telecommunications, education, etc.

Industry 12

Industry Telecommunications Incentives Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

These differences go to the foundation of the modern corporate IT department — the infrastructure — which includes the software, hardware, communications, facilities, data centers, operations, and other technical resources a corporation operates.

CIO 11

CIO Technology Telecommunications Information Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Nokia, today’s telecommunications networking company, has made corporate transformation into an art form. In 1992, new CEO Jorma Ollila and his team made a decision that is iconic in the world of corporate reinvention, going all-in on the emerging telecommunications markets. That’s where the rubber boots came from.).

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Crisis Committee Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Not long ago, the chief executive of a global telecommunications firm shared with me his frustration that "even in a meeting with the CEO, most institutional investors seek only granular data points to plug into their models.

Long-term 14

Long-term CEO Short-term Asset Management 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

But the real power of the partnership comes from their ability to bring the best of each of their departments—as well as pricing, operations, and other groups—to bear in exploiting those micromarket opportunities. That starts with developing a deep understanding of how customers behave and make decisions.

Marketing 15

Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

The phenomenon of fast-track CEO succession appears to be most prominent in the retail, technology, media, and telecommunications sectors—all of which are particularly affected by disruptive business models and new competitors. Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend. Succession planning'

CEO 15

CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

We operate in a business landscape driven by an obsession with youth. According to Techies.com, the average age of a software developer in Silicon Valley is 24. One of the headhunter-experts I talked to for that project was Ann Carlsen , a recruiter in telecommunications and technology based in Boulder, Colorado. I should know.

COO 17

COO Chief Financial Officer Telecommunications Technology 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Ellen Kullman (DuPont), Maria das Graças Silva Foster (Petrobras), and Chua Sock Koong (Singapore Telecommunications) lead three of the most powerful companies in the world. For many women in the developing world, a better approach may be to gain employment in existing companies.

Microfinance 11

Microfinance Flextime Globalization Telecommunications 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brook Manville consults to socially-minded enterprises on matters of strategy and organizational development. Brook Manville consults to socially-minded enterprises on matters of strategy and organizational development. His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.

Guidelines 15

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

My friend Mark Zawacki , founder of 650 Labs, which advises companies on leveraging Silicon Valley, has identified three approaches: idea scouting, venture investing, and traditional product research and development. Swisscom AG is the major telecommunications provider in Switzerland. Product Research and Development.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Innovation Technology Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. The name for this digital infrastructure reflects its roots in the world of software development rather than public policy: it is referred to as “ The India Stack.”

Banking 15

Banking Long-term Short-term System 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. The common idea behind these models is that the company does not have to be the (full) owner of the asset to be its (sole) operator.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

The latest developments around PRISM and the NSA dragnet operations uncovered by Edward Snowden, in my view, severely damage the fragile fabric of the new global ecosystem, which we so sorely rely on in order to collectively tackle truly urgent global issues such as energy, pollution, food, climate change, (cyber-)terrorism and inequality.

Globalization 13

Globalization Technology Information Technology Telecommunications 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

It is rare to find an American company that is not developing a market strategy to benefit from the rapid growth of emerging markets such as Brazil, India, and China. The Doha Round was supposed to rein in agricultural subsidies, address the development concerns of poorer countries, and open up service sector markets — and cut tariffs.

Strategy 10

Strategy Globalization Politics Telecommunications 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

There is a growing sense that so-called lean start-up techniques — developing a minimal viable product, learning in the marketplace, and pivoting based on market feedback — can help to unleash this potential. That''s not right. Corporate leaders can take steps to encourage this kind of market-based learning.

Ries 8

Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8